South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol vowed that any North Korean nuclear attack would be “the end of that regime” on Wednesday while touring the USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine currently stationed in the southern port city of Busan.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, this weekend, resulting in major agreements for Korean companies to participate in building railways, airports, and a “smart city” in Ukraine after the culmination of the ongoing Russian invasion.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol led a meeting of NATO’s Asia-Pacific partners on the sidelines of the military alliance’s annual summit on Wednesday focused on combating the threat of communist North Korea, steering the conversation away from NATO members’ primary concern in Ukraine.
Communist North Korea threatened on Monday to shoot down U.S. Air Force planes in response to the docking of a nuclear-capable submarine in South Korea, the result of an agreement between leftist American President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, in April.
A sealed indictment in South Korea, revealed to the public for the first time by Reuters on Tuesday, accuses former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog of stealing company secrets from his old employer so he could help Taiwan-based Foxconn build a chip factory in China.
The communist government of North Korea boasted, through its state media arms, on Tuesday of orchestrating a massive rally in Pyongyang to mark the anniversary of the Korean War, declaring America the sole actor responsible for the war and celebrating that the communists “have firmly grasped” nuclear weapons.
A study published Wednesday revealed that Seoul, South Korea, lost one in ten of its pediatric clinics in the last five years, a dramatic reduction largely attributed to the nation’s catastrophically low birth rate.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio met in Seoul over the weekend for their second summit in two months.
A South Korean labor union official died in a Seoul hospital on Tuesday after setting himself on fire during a May Day protest. The official was evidently in distress over a pretrial hearing over extortion charges.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister, top communist official Kim Yo-jong, lobbed a barrage of insults at American President Joe Biden in a screed this weekend accusing him of endangering America with his “senility” and being incapable of serving through 2024.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s media arms ardently condemned conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday for coming to an agreement that would see the return of American nuclear submarines to the Korean peninsula, warning he had “likely” caused a “nuclear crisis.”
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Thursday, commemorating the 70th anniversary of his country’s alliance with America.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol surprised attendees at Wednesday’s lavish White House state dinner with a karaoke rendition of “American Pie,” a rock classic that host President Joe Biden described as Yoon’s favorite from his school years.
President Joe Biden and visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday signed an agreement that would increase U.S. support for South Korea’s security and give Seoul more input in responses to North Korean aggression.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol landed in Washington, DC, on Monday for a nearly week-long trip that will include extensive meetings with leftist President Joe Biden, a state dinner, and business negotiations between some of South Korea’s top corporate entities and American counterparts.
The office of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol told reporters on Tuesday that a “significant number” of documents alleging to be American intelligence information were “forged” and did not represent authentic classified information, but did not specify which documents were “forged” and which may be real.
Alleged confidential U.S. government leaks to left-wing media over the weekend included information from documents, allegedly sourced from intercepting conversations among South Korean officials, indicating that the conservative government of President Yoon Suk-yeol was concerned that leftist President Joe Biden would drag Seoul into the ongoing war in Ukraine.
North Korea’s state media outlets published photos on Tuesday of communist dictator Kim Jong-un alongside a weapon identified as the “Hwasan-31,” the country’s first apparent tactical nuclear warhead produced in response to Kim’s call for the country to become “flawlessly prepared to use nuclear weapons anytime and anywhere.”
The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, told Reuters in an interview published on Monday that he supported South Korea developing nuclear weapons in response to increased belligerence from communist North Korea, a nuclear-armed state.
South Korea’s latest defense white paper referred to North Korea as the “enemy” for the first time in six years, citing Pyongyang’s violation of bilateral agreements, missile tests, penetration of South Korean airspace with drones, and growing stockpile of weapons-grade nuclear material.
The government of South Korea reportedly sent thousands of police officers to descend on the headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a coalition of labor organizations, on Wednesday in an extensive national security raid union officials said was ongoing as of Thursday.
The president of South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, suggested this week that his country could “possess its own nukes” in response to North Korea’s incessant, and escalating, threats against Seoul.
The scandal brewing in South Korea over last month’s invasion by North Korean drones took another turn on Thursday, as the South Korean military admitted one of the five invading drones managed to penetrate the no-fly zone around President Yoon Suk-yeol’s office in Seoul.
Leftist American President Joe Biden told reporters on Monday that his administration was not discussing joint nuclear exercises with South Korea in a passing comment while traveling, apparently contradicting South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Monday he has asked the Biden administration for a move active role in managing nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula, in part because the South Korean public is growing increasingly uneasy over North Korean aggression.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday criticized his military’s response to North Korean drones invading the South’s airspace. Yoon called for a new military unit specializing in drone interceptions.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which represents the interest of unionized workers in a variety of fields in South Korea, is planning a nationwide strike for Tuesday in solidarity with an ongoing truckers’ strike the ruling conservative political party has denounced as unpatriotic.
South Korea’s trucker crisis came to a head on Tuesday when the government ordered striking truckers to return to work, even though the truckers say that no deal to address their grievances has been reached.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) paid a brief, but extremely lucrative, visit to South Korea on November 16, signing about $75 billion worth of investment agreements in less than 24 hours.
The foreign minister of North Korea, Choe Son Hui, published an angry screed against America vowing Pyongyang would become a “more serious, realistic, and inevitable threat” to America so long as Washington pursued cooperation with South Korea and Japan.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with various world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, prominently including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea.
Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday surrendered custody of two dogs given to him by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in 2018.
North Korea went on an unexpected rampage Wednesday, launching 23 ballistic missiles and over a hundred artillery shells in the direction of South Korea.
Two American college students and 24 other foreigners were among the 153 confirmed deaths in a crowd surge at a Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday night.
A hot mic captured South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol calling lawmakers “fuckers” during the United Nations General Assembly this week.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, one of the few conservatives to win a presidency anywhere in the world this year, urged the United Nations in his speech on Tuesday to “stand together in solidarity” and defend freedom from wherever a threat may arise.
North Korean state media reported on Friday that dictator Kim Jong-un signed a law making the Communist tyranny’s march to nuclear weapons “irreversible,” banning all further denuclearization talks with the outside world, and mandating an immediate nuclear attack if Kim or other top officials is harmed by foreign powers.
A Morning Consult survey released on Friday found several controversial world leaders with higher approval ratings than President Joe Biden, including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose re-election bid in October is supposedly doomed.
The former head of South Korean’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), Park Jie-won, warned on Monday that North Korea would “likely” test a nuclear weapon prior to the American midterm elections in November in response to Seoul resuming military exercises with the United States.
Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and confrontational sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, on Friday scoffed at South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s offer of economic assistance in exchange for denuclearization as “foolish” and told Yoon to “shut his mouth.”
